Italy has endless beautiful sights, with a rich history and culture – walking around its cities is like being in an open-air museum. From the Colosseum in Rome to the leaning tower of Pisa, here’s some famous monuments in Italy you need to visit. These are all major tourist attractions...
Most Famous Works Of Art: Mona Lisa, Louvre, Paris 2. The Last Supper – Leonardo da Vinci. This world famous painting is not shown in a museum, but rather covers the back wall of the dining hall at Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan, Italy. It was painted by the most famou...
We couldn’t put together a list of world-famous buildings without including this grandArt Deco skyscraper. Once the tallest building in the world, construction began on the Empire State building on St Patrick’s Day 1930 and was completed just 410 days later. Construction of the world-famous ...
These are not just places to grab a meal, but destinations in their own right, comparable to the world’s most famous museums, galleries and monuments. Each one has withstood the test of time, eschewing trendy gimmicks in favor of traditional, high-quality cuisine. Just as visiting Schönbr...
Palazzo Barberini boasts works by some of Italy’s best painters: Caravaggio, Raphael, Tintoretto, Bronzino. Its stars include the lush and moving“La Fornarina,”Raphael’s portrait of his lover (and possibly secret wife), the baker’s daughter;Hans Holbein’s famous portrait of King Henry VI...
The house was named after another famous find, a bronze statue of a faun. Both are now on display at the National Archeological Museum of Naples. The most impressive art work on site is a marble floor set in a complex geometric pattern. 4. Pompeii Thermal Baths[SEE MAP] Public baths ...
Piet Mondrian grew up in Holland and experimented with many different styles from forms of impressionism to Abstract Art. However he remains most famous for his creation of the style called neoplasticism. According to the Official Archives of the Tate Museum, “From the Dutch ‘de nieuwe beeld...
in 1866, it comprises many tombs of noted industrialists, famous writers, artists and politicians, and also more surprising ones, such as thefather of Albert Einstein. Not to be missed among the many beautiful pieces of cemetery art is the striking Tower-of-Babel-like tomb of the ...
Rome Vatican Museum With over 5 million visitors, the Vatican Museums win second place, Italy’s flagship inVatican City,which preserves over70,000 works of art, including the magnificentRaphael Rooms and the Sistine Chapelwhere you can admire theLast Judgment by Michelangeloand many other masterpie...
Anghiari – famous for a Renaissance battle which featured in a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci – will host an exhibition on the culture of fighting and the self-made soldiers who went from being mercenaries to establishing their own, art-filled courts, such as Federico da Montefeltro, who...